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Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command


From: Hongyi Zhao
Subject: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:34:59 +0800

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:58 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> [...]
> With the maximalist approach it is unavoidable that
> sometimes one function can do 1 2 and 3, and another can do 2,
> 3, and 4, so it seems they have "too fine granularity" in your
> phrasing but outside the intersection is actually ... 1 and 4!

Then why not combine the two into one, which can do 1, 2, 3, and 4?

> The most important thing is that everything makes sense and
> works, if it overlaps, has inconsistent names with respect to
> each other, yada yada, I mean try to avoid it but if it
> happens it is not a problem, really.
>
> --
> underground experts united

Why do you use the above sentence as the signature? Does it have any
profound implications?

> https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Hongyi



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